The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-02
State Stems.

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The Home: Wheat, is looking we'll
in Chatham. It is not very TALL but
the heads look we'll, and the yield
promises to be the best we have had
in ten years. Z J
E. City Falcon: Last Friday there
were shipped from New Berne to
Baltimore $500 fifty pound cases of
canned peas. That was IT'S, 900
pounds. Why can't the like be done
in Elizabeth City.
Dan Valley Echo: Farmers say
they never saw a better growing crop
than at present. Though our farmers
may not have as many thousand
pounds of the weed to sell next fall,
yet they will certainly live at home
and defy hard times.
Shelby New Era: Several Northern
cotton manufacturers are at Blacks;
S &C., inspecting the Ninety-nine Island
water courses, with a view to erecting
the largest cotton factory in the South.
It is their intention, should they locate,
to make bleached muslins.
Lenoir Topic; The prospect for
Blowing Rock, the queen of the Blue
Ridge summer resorts, to have a big
rush of visitors this summer, is good.
About next week, or the week after,
the stream will begin. The boarding
house accommodation is almost double
what it was last year and still the
building boom continues.
Washington Gazette: Fish have
been more plentiful this season than
for many years past. Herring and
shad in very great abundance and the
former are now selling at a nominal
price per thousand. This large catch
of fish of this season, disproves the
fears of some of our citizens that our
waters were becoming less prolific Of
fish each year.
Charlotte Observer: We notice that
MI. S. G. Worth is again Matching
fish. He is now engaged as specialist
by the U. S. Fish Commission. He
was in Charlotte a few days ago with
Capt. Ellis. They had twelve hundred
thousand shad eggs, which they were
carrying to the Catawba and Congaree
rivers. Many of the eggs Matched
while the car was in Charlotte. Mr..
Worth is now in a bushes that. suits
his taste.
Piedmont Press: Messrs. Link, Me-
Comb & Co., with some other gentle
men, have made arrangements to go
into the fruit canning business, and
will commence operations this SUMMER
Blackberries, whortleberries, peaches
and tomatoes will be put up. Con
tracts have been made already for the
sale of a portion of the products of the
new factory. Work has already com
menced in the can making department,
and as soon as blaekberries are ripe,
business will commence In the packing
department. ~ {
Peoples Press: German carp are
becoming common in ponds along
most of streams. We hear of
several large ones being caught in.
Muddy Creek, Middle Fork, and South
Fork. They must have been scattered
through these waters by ponds break
ing.-We hear some persons COM
planning that bugs did SO much dam
age to Irish potato tops that they can
not make a half crop. One person
says he saved his crop by planting
cal enough the house for the chick
ems to destroy the insects.
Union Republican: MI. E. j. Stone,
of Pilot Mountain, Surry county,
called at our Office Wednesday, and
among other things informs us that
the force of hands on the G. F. &. Y.
VI R., while digging for the founda-
ton Of the bridge which is to span
Toms creek, discovered a vein of coal
IN sufficient quantity to use in their
FORCES for all the smith work at this
point. No doubt other and richer
veins await discovery in this locality,
and who knows but that the Old Pilot